The Day After
The Day After

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The frightening story of the weeks leading up to and following a nuclear strike on the United States. The bulk of the activity centers around the town of Lawrence, Kansas.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Day After:

Jason Robards
JoBeth Williams
Steve Guttenberg
John Cullum
John Lithgow
Bibi Besch

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The frightening story of the weeks leading up to and following a nuclear strike on the United States. The bulk of the activity centers around the town of Lawrence, Kansas.

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Creative Loafing - 9/10 by Matt BrunsonA major event by any measure, this ABC production resonated far beyond the boob tube, with controversy swirling around its creation, content and broadcast.
User Review - 10/10 by Denise AIt's good. I don't think there's another movie like this one out there. I hope we never have to endear a nuclear holocaust.
User Review - 10/10 by Salim IThe Day After is one of the most scariest and thoughtful apocalypse movies I have ever seen. There are images in this film that I can't un-see. Nicolas Meyer (the director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) does a great job of filming the paranoia and inner thought of the characters, and for turning a nice, calm environment into a bat-shit crazy war zone. The Day After is an anti-war apocalypse film you must see to believe, a classic TV movie.
User Review - 10/10 by Tristenn PGreat disaster movie! It kept me thinking!
User Review - 10/10 by Alec BI never enjoy movies of this era because they tend to be too slow in progressing the plot. While this film was a bit slow to get into things, it wasn't because of your typical 80's slow build, it was because there are quite a few different characters to introduce. Once things get going (ie, the nukes drop) the story picks up pretty quickly and is very captivating. What I enjoyed most about this was its simplistic realism. There isn't really a hero or villain and the day isn't saved, a more earnest reflection of how humanity will likely behave in this scenario. If you're curious about what the critics had to say on this film, it was pretty well received when it was released during a time when nuclear war was still a very real and present danger.
User Review - 10/10 by tracey lthis harrowing film woke me up to the nuclear situation, its dated but a must see
User Review - 10/10 by Jude PWho ever made movies with pomp and pageant and much elaboration about a nuclear holocaust, would be outdated and null when taken into perspective what this movie has depicted.
User Review - 10/10 by Matthew FHere we have 5 films. In which 4 of them are pretty new, and 1 is as old as the first laptop computer. Ladder 49, a movie about firefighters and their lives and the things around it, is an interesting drama, with plenty of action. But the ending of the movie is a sort of a let down, although it is unexpected, which we hardly have from movies today. Ladder 49 is a unique blockbuster. The Bourne Supremacy. I have never, EVER, been this dizzy. The car chases are simply put: awesome. And the intensity has never been this high. The beginning of the movie feels like a lackluster ending on a season finale of a TV show, which leads on to the next season and really surpasses it's past performance. (Example: 24.) Spider-Man 2. God, who doesn't like this one? I have heard of a boy who saw it almost 22 times ALREADY. Is it really that good? Yes. I actually looked for a box of kleenexes during certain scenes. And the web-slinging looks a lot more realistic this time, rather than a cartoonish looking approach. Sam Raimi as finally perfected something we wanted perfect. A Comic book. The Day After Tomorrow...special effects are the main premise of success here. Seeing Los Angeles being englufed with tornados is worth more than the ticket price, and New York City being submerged is just as good. The plot is cornballed though, and things can become really boring. But the images of a frozen New York will haunt you, and when new york city begins freezing, (which is something I would never think that would happen) you are going to be picking your jaw off the floor. Another film I was attracted to by it's very cool DVD cover, was "The Day After". Believe me, it just wasn't because I liked The Day After Tommorrow. It was only $8 bucks and it was about nuclear war. When I looked into the film more, I discovered it was a made for TV movie, and then I thought, "It's worth only $4." But after reading the reviews and the contriversy this movie caused, I had to see what was the deal with it, and why 1983 everyone was in panic of nuclear war. NOW I KNOW. This movie is the most graphic movie of the 1980s I have ever seen for TV. It not only shows a giant large explosion--mind you, it shows the whole package. When it blows, expect to see people burning, people literally becoming vaporized from an explosion, and alot more. And don't think just because it's a made for TV movie it won't pack suprises and leave you thinking it was scientifically wrong...this film does not miss out on the details. After the explosion, a Kansas City doctor returns to a nearby city to help those hurt from the explosion. The after effects of the nuclear blast are the least to say...horrorific. Fallout settles in to nearby cities causing radiation sickness (which is shown graphically, I won't forget the girl who's dress had a blood stain on it near her pubic region), the loss of hair from many people, the people charred to death but not vaporized by the blast, and the unsettling image of buildings ripping apart near ground zero, and also the image of Kansas City with gas lines still burning, and a man returning to his home, where the only thing left is debris. A doctor returns to Kansas City to see his home before he dies... "Get out of my home..." the doctor says to a family settled on the remains of his home. The father of the family holds the Doctor and the two cry, and the camera pans up to reveal of what hardly remains of downtown Kansas City. The end. A dark and political film...not only was it contriversal, but it was a very emotional and unbelievably sad experience. This is one of the films that needs to remade and shown even more graphically...to impact the world again and show that nuclear war is not the solution, even in the given time we are in.
User Review - 10/10 by Manuel CGreat oldie in its time dealt with a realistic view of what couldd happen for WW3. At that time the fear of the people was real.
User Review - 10/10 by Ju5+1n 6A chilling movie that packs an emotional punch, one of the very best "activist for a cause" movies ever made.

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